Our ability to detect certain space objects is rather poor. We may only have a month or two warning before impact.
Our ability to touch them is even more poor. Part of the reason we need to be out there is to gain the ability to intercept such space objects.
The last major event was only about 100 years ago over Siberia. If that happens over a populated area, it would be devastation unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
“...Our ability to detect certain space objects is rather poor...”
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We need a president that respects the vast importance of an active space program. We learned more, and produced more new technology from the Apollo Project than any other space program — this was a great example. We should have been on the moon (permanent bases) well over a decade ago.
The priorities in DC suck. We need a real president with resolve and understanding of the future and the technologies that need to be exploited and expanded.